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Posted: April 18, 2012
Several millennia ago, Aristotle asserted that man was different from the animals because only he had the gift of (thoughtful) speech. The cursing generation seems intent on erasing that distinction as Mark Milke explains…
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Mr. Bissett is a former Canadian Ambassador with 36 years of service in the Government of Canada. He was the Canadian Ambassador to Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Albania, and High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago. From 1985 -1990 he was the Executive Director of the Canadian Immigration Service. During this period he served on the Prime Minister’s Intelligence Advisory Committee. Upon leaving the Public Service in 1992 he was employed by the International Organization of Migration as their Chief of Mission in Moscow. He worked in Moscow for five years helping the Russian Government establish a new Immigration Service and draft new Immigration legislation and a new Citizenship Act. During this period he was in Chechnya helping evacuate and find accommodation for refugees fleeing the civil war there in 1994. Since his return to Canada in 1997 Mr. Bissett has acted as a consultant to the Government on a number of immigration issues. He was a regular panelist on the now defunct Public Broadcasting System [PBS] TV Programme, “The Editors,” and is a regular contributor of articles to Canadian newspapers.
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Posted: March 1, 2010
A former Canadian Ambassador with 36 years of service in eastern and central Europe, the Caribbean and Moscow, along with service as head of Canada’s immigration service, James Bisset argues the unwillingness to call treason by its proper name—and preference to use other, less serious sections of the Criminal Code when dealing with terrorists is an example of how deeply political correctness has permeated our society: “There is a dangerous tendency to obscure the truth and to camouflage unpleasant facts by ignoring them or by using euphemisms to minimize their gravity. “
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Posted: June 22, 2009
It was inevitable that NATO expansion eastward would at some point run into a hostile Russian reaction. The attack on South Ossetia by Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili in August was the last straw and Russia finally showed its teeth by crushing the Georgian offensive in 48 hours. The Russians then added insult to injury by recognizing the independence of South Ossetia and the other breakaway region, Abkhazia. The West faces the prospect of a new arms race—and if not the specter of nuclear warfare, at least a serious setback to global peace and security.
Articles by James Bissett
